Manufactured years 1971

The Charger was launched in August 1971 as a fastback version of the VH Valiant.

Chrysler soon developed a homologation special and thus the Road/Track (R/T) high performance pack came about. Setting the R/T apart visually were black stripes wrapping around the tail spoiler (with the optional of bonnet blackout and vertical stripes behind the front wheel arches) along with a range of bold colours with names like Vitamin C, Hot Mustard and Hemi Orange. The grille was blacked out and featured quartz-halogen driving lights while styled steel wheels were also unique to the R/T, along with full instrumentation and a two-spoke aluminium steering wheel. The R/T was available with three engines; the 265-cid six, the E37 Street Six Pack or the homologation special E38 Six Pack. The E37 option consisted of triple Weber 45 DCOE carburettors to give a very healthy 248 bhp. Only 1,300 had the R/T pack and a tiny fraction, just 134 cars in all, combined both the R/T pack with the E37 Six Pack option.

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